What It Takes To Be A Trauma Therapist with Janina Fisher, PhD

Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation and the author of three books:
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017),
Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and
The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022).
She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based interventions into trauma treatment, and she is also the creator of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) therapy.
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[@nhanlon4756]

Thank you. Love the work you're both doing. So helpful 🙂

[@ts3858]

Does Janina Fischer see new patients ?

[@karieification]

“No amount of trauma work is going to get rid of triggers. It’s a biological phenomenon that we are not going to get brains to give up.”

[@kerricripps2878]

That’s the point - our only option is to get better at recognising when we are triggered and learn different ways of responding than just to act out